{"id":21386,"date":"2020-08-05T19:53:39","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T10:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/05\/ayodhya-narendra-modi-temple-foundation-stone-ceremony"},"modified":"2020-08-05T19:53:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T10:53:39","slug":"ayodhya-modi-hails-dawn-of-new-era-as-work-on-controversial-temple-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21386","title":{"rendered":"Ayodhya: Modi hails &#8216;dawn of new era&#8217; as work on controversial temple begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foundation stone laid for temple to Lord Ram at site where mosque was razed 28 years ago <\/p>\n<p>The Indian town of Ayodhya welcomed Narendra Modi for a ceremony marking the start of construction of a temple on the site where a mosque was razed to the ground by a Hindu mob 28 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Modi\u2019s Bharatiya Janata party has campaigned for years for the temple to be built at the spot considered to be the birthplace of the Hindu deity Lord Ram. The issue has divided Indians, alienated Muslims, helped propel the BJP to power and thrown its rivals into disarray.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/05\/ayodhya-narendra-modi-temple-foundation-stone-ceremony\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foundation stone laid for temple to Lord Ram at site where mosque was razed 28 years ago The Indian town of Ayodhya welcomed Narendra Modi for a ceremony marking the start of construction of a temple on the site where a mosque was razed to the ground b&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":589,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[516,62,433,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hinduism","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21387,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21386\/revisions\/21387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}